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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Мастер » Fri Jun 19, 2015 9:40 am

Heid the Ba' wrote:Foxtrot Alpha had a good article on the U@ about a month ago. How odd, I thought I remembered Powers being shot down, but apparently I hadn't been born.


Perhaps you remember his helicopter crash of August 1, 1977?

Supposedly his was already planned to be the last U-2 flight over the Soviet Union, as Eisenhower thought they were becoming too dangerous. The outcome generally confirms Eisenhower's fear.
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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Enzo » Sat Jun 20, 2015 4:09 am

"The U2 Incident" has been talked about for years, so while kids today have no idea what "Remember the Pueblo" might mean, later generations could well have heard of the U2 flap.

yeah, accomplished U2 pilot Powers went on to be a traffic report helicopter pilot in LA.
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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Arneb » Sat Jun 20, 2015 8:11 am

Enzo wrote:... kids today have no idea what "Remember the Pueblo" might mean,...

Errr, neither do I and I am already 46... :oops:
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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Мастер » Sat Jun 20, 2015 9:48 am

Arneb wrote:
Enzo wrote:... kids today have no idea what "Remember the Pueblo" might mean,...

Errr, neither do I and I am already 46... :oops:


One of Our Great Leader's most glorious victories!

I'm thinking, perhaps, 1970?

OK, I've gegoogelt. 1968. Try "Pueblo North Korea" in your search request.
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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Enzo » Sat Jun 20, 2015 5:37 pm

A naval battle with the North Koreans in which the USA came in second.


It was going to be a rallying cry for all time, like "remember the Alamo", but it faded from our attention over the years.


Ooh, I had forgotten the captain of the ship was Commander Bucher. "( terrified whinny/neigh)"
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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Heid the Ba » Mon Jun 29, 2015 9:12 am

More plane porn. Mostly newish stuff but there is a U2 in there.

Remember the Pueblo!*

*I hadn't heard of it either.

Edit to add: You can leave a review of it. It seems that most of the one star reviews are political statements by people who haven't actually seen it.
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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Heid the Ba » Wed Aug 05, 2015 10:31 am

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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Heid the Ba » Fri Aug 07, 2015 2:42 pm

I'll just leave this here without comment. Other than "Blimey!"
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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Lance » Fri Aug 07, 2015 2:47 pm

So is that a police dash-cam? Is he trying to pull it over?
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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Heid the Ba » Sat Nov 21, 2015 1:59 pm

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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Enzo » Sun Nov 22, 2015 7:15 am

Cool.
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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Heid the Ba » Wed Feb 10, 2016 11:45 am

I came across a reference to the US flying Canberras and thought, can't possibly be the old DH, it must be a new plane. Nope, still used by NASA sixty plus years and counting.
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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Enzo » Wed Feb 10, 2016 8:47 pm

Wow, I haven't seen one of those since I was a kid. I had a plastic model of one.
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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Lianachan » Wed Feb 10, 2016 8:54 pm

Wow indeed! Wikipedia says Pakistan is still using them too.
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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby tubeswell » Thu Feb 18, 2016 1:14 am

Heid the Ba' wrote:I came across a reference to the US flying Canberras and thought, can't possibly be the old DH, it must be a new plane. Nope, still used by NASA sixty plus years and counting.


What do they use it for? Static display?
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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Heid the Ba » Fri Mar 04, 2016 11:46 am

I think this comes under clucking bell!
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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Enzo » Sat Mar 05, 2016 5:58 am

That is something.

I was sitting next to a white-knuckle granny on her first flight once. Scared stiff of flying in the first place, the descent was turbulent, and the plane was severely buffeted near the ground, like the 777 in the litle box below the above story. She was freaking, and I was trying to think of things to say that would calm here as we are flopping around the sky. She was certain of impending death, I wasn;t too concerned, at worst, a belly scrape and a slide down the chute.

I used to enjoy flying in little Piper Navajo Chieftans, where we could see out the front and all the sides. Got to watch as we crabbed into crosswinds coming into Detroit.
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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Lianachan » Wed Mar 09, 2016 9:58 am

I've had numerous ferry crossings that were like the marine equivalent of that.

I missed out on this one, though, where the 3.5 hr crossing took 15 hours and headed out into the atlantic, full of people convinced they were going to die - sounds like a wheeze.
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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Heid the Ba » Wed Mar 09, 2016 11:19 am

That didn't sound like fun. My one trip from Shetland to Aiberdeen was in a Force 6 with the ship stabilisers not working but it wasn't anything like that bad.
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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Lianachan » Wed May 03, 2017 3:03 pm

Surprised to discover this today.

Mig-17 wrote:Image 1952 - Present


Still used by, apparently, China, North Korea, Madagascar, Sudan and Tanzania.
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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Heid the Ba » Wed May 03, 2017 4:06 pm

They are getting to the stage where all detection is electronic so if you don't have electronics . . . Also just swamp the defences with cheap disposable planes. And blimey!
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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Heid the Ba » Tue Jul 04, 2017 11:01 am

From the other thread, the C130 Hercules has been in service since 1954 and will be for some years yet.
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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Lianachan » Tue Jul 04, 2017 12:02 pm

Also:

Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker wrote:Image

1956 - Present
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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Enzo » Tue Jul 04, 2017 3:41 pm

You see, Billy, when two aircraft love each other very much...
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Re: Long Serving Military Aircraft

Postby Arneb » Tue Jul 04, 2017 5:52 pm

Enzo wrote:You see, Billy, when two aircraft love each other very much...


... then they will have many, many little cubs
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